Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar are taking their momentum from the New Hampshire to South Carolina. Candidates who underperformed in New Hampshire, on the other hand, now face even more pressure to win in the Palmetto State.It's one of a few impacts the New Hampshire has on South Carolina's primary, said Linda Abrams. A political science professor at Bob Jones University, she said campaign styles will likely have to change once candidates become fully immersed in campaigning in South Carolina.In New Hampshire, candidates have the time and space to go door knocking. South Carolina, she said, is too large for that approach with less than a month until Super Tuesday. "This is a marathon," she said. "Especially with Super Tuesday three days after the South Carolina primary, you really have to have an organization to be able to pull it off."She said Buttigieg, Sanders and Klobuchar will have to be ready to drum up support."They're coming in with some momentum, but if you don't have organization in place here in South Carolina and in Nevada and three days later in all of those Super Tuesday states including California and Texas, you still have a very hard path to the nomination."But the time in between New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries can create a problem for candidate Joe Biden, who ended his night in New Hampshire with 8% of support, compared with Bernie Sanders' 26%. Biden made the trip to see supporters in South Carolina before polls closed in New Hampshire Tuesday. "That two and a half weeks may actually play against Joe Biden if the primary were this week," Abrams said. "He's already been in the state, he's already put his ground game to work, but now you've got two and a half weeks for South Carolinians to think about what happened in new Hampshire to really maybe take a new look at Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar (and) that doesn't that doesn't bode well for Biden."She said something else to keep in mind is the open primary system in South Carolina. In this case, the system would allow Republican voters to vote for a Democratic candidate, which Abrams said could sway how Democratic candidates do among Democratic supporters. The South Carolina primary is set for Feb. 29.

GREENVILLE, S.C. —

Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar are taking their momentum from the New Hampshire to South Carolina.

Candidates who underperformed in New Hampshire, on the other hand, now face even more pressure to win in the Palmetto State.

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It's one of a few impacts the New Hampshire has on South Carolina's primary, said Linda Abrams.

A political science professor at Bob Jones University, she said campaign styles will likely have to change once candidates become fully immersed in campaigning in South Carolina.

In New Hampshire, candidates have the time and space to go door knocking. South Carolina, she said, is too large for that approach with less than a month until Super Tuesday.

"This is a marathon," she said. "Especially with Super Tuesday three days after the South Carolina primary, you really have to have an organization to be able to pull it off."

She said Buttigieg, Sanders and Klobuchar will have to be ready to drum up support.

"They're coming in with some momentum, but if you don't have organization in place here in South Carolina and in Nevada and three days later in all of those Super Tuesday states including California and Texas, you still have a very hard path to the nomination."

But the time in between New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries can create a problem for candidate Joe Biden, who ended his night in New Hampshire with 8% of support, compared with Bernie Sanders' 26%.

"That two and a half weeks may actually play against Joe Biden if the primary were this week," Abrams said. "He's already been in the state, he's already put his ground game to work, but now you've got two and a half weeks for South Carolinians to think about what happened in new Hampshire to really maybe take a new look at Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar (and) that doesn't that doesn't bode well for Biden."

She said something else to keep in mind is the open primary system in South Carolina. In this case, the system would allow Republican voters to vote for a Democratic candidate, which Abrams said could sway how Democratic candidates do among Democratic supporters.